January 1781

I RTP Esqr. A.G. for the Cmnwth. of Massats. by virtue of the Law of the Law for Confiscating the Estates of certain Persons commonly called Absentees do hereby Substitute & appoint J.P: J.H: & S.T:1 or either of them in my place and stead and to the use and behoof of the said Cmnwlth. to recieve Seizure & Possession from the Shff. of sd. County to all & singular the Estates late of Certain Absentees lying in the County of Middlesex in the said State lately belonging to Certain Persons called absentees upon which Judgment was rendered at the Inf. Ct. of Cmn. Pleas holden at Cambridge in sd. county on Decr. last past the last Ss. of Novr. last past on behalf of sd. Cmnwlth. to have seized Possessions thereof Wit. my hand & Seal, this blank day of Jany. 1781.

Absentees in Co: Cumb. whose Estates are returned

Francis Waldo

Thos. Oxnard

Jeremh. Pote mov. to Hal.

Thos. Wyer mov. to Hal

Jona. Sewal

John Martin mov: N.York

Arthur Savage

Timo. Prout

Thos. Colson. merch. after Lex:

James Wildridge

Thos. Ross. mov.

John Wiswal

Wm. Brown.

Wm. Tyng

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Francis Skinner

Saml. Waterhouse

Isaac Royal

Dft.

1.

The governor appointed James Prescott, Joseph Hosmer, and Samuel Thatcher as the local substitutes in Middlesex County. For the full list of committees in the various counties, see the Massachusetts Spy, Mar. 29, 1781.